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Powerless to change Reddit. You can always do what I did and use lemmy instead.
If this reddit change did not occurred, I probably never had tried Lemmy (even if I'm in OSS world for 20+ years now). First thought is that I don't think communities going black or mods leaving reddit will do anything to reddit, it's so big and alternative are somehow a niche for geek that they will not loose most of their user base. For mods they'll find out some way ... On the other hand, I don't care, I'm happy here on the fediverse, I participated more discussion here in 1 month than in years on reddit. I had bad experience on my first posts on reddit (probably not interesting enough for some and then downvoted a lot), and I think that I just always thought if my post will be appreciated or not and so and finally just didn't post. I don't have this feeling here.
I also had a terrible first experience posting on Reddit, which turned me off from activity submitting any content and only commenting rarely. I mostly lurked and voted, which I still thought of as participating in the community. But in my short time here (Kbin for me), I see the entire userbase as activity welcoming and generally nicer! Just looking at the voting scores, it seems that downvots are hardly used at all! Maybe it's a good thing we're separating from the common audience that was quick to turn toxic and become combative for the fun of it.